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350-601 · 75 questions

• A media company cabled a new UCS blade chassis to a fabric interconnect pair, but the chassis never appears for discovery. The ports facing the chassis IOMs are still unconfigured Ethernet ports. What must change before discovery can start?
• A retail bank's blade chassis is discovered and shows a power-redundancy warning. Each side of the chassis power supplies is plugged into a separate utility feed. Which chassis power policy matches that cabling?
• A retail bank deployed standalone UCS C-series rack servers and did not install fabric interconnects. An administrator needs out-of-band virtual KVM and BIOS settings for one of those servers. Which management target is the correct place to open?
• A media company's blades cannot use VLAN 240. The VLAN exists on the fabric interconnects and is allowed on the uplink port-channel. The updating vNIC template on the service profiles does not list VLAN 240. Where should the engineer add it?
• A game studio blade logs its vHBA into the Fibre Channel fabric, then boots from the local disk. The boot policy lists no SAN target. The LUN is on an array that the fabric can already reach. What should be added so the blade boots from that LUN?
• A SaaS platform cabled a blade chassis to fabric interconnect server ports, and the chassis appears as a discovered object that still cannot be used. Discovery is waiting for an administrator to accept it. What completes that step?
• A media company is installing a UCS X-series chassis and wants server profiles and policies managed in Intersight, not in a local UCS Manager domain. Which management model matches that goal?
• A retail bank changes the boot order on a service profile template, and the profiles already created from it do not change. The template type is initial. Why do those profiles keep the old boot order?
• A media company wants Intersight inventory and virtual KVM for a standalone UCS C-series rack server, and no fabric interconnects are installed. How should that server be brought into Intersight?
• A SaaS platform blade vHBA never logs into the VSAN where the array lives. The vHBA template names a different VSAN, and the Fibre Channel uplinks carry only the array VSAN. What should change?
• A SaaS platform runs a UCS X-series chassis in Intersight Managed Mode. An engineer adds a VLAN and an uplink port policy inside a server profile, and the fabric interconnect ports do not change. Where do those domain-wide policies belong?
• A regional hospital points a service profile at a newer host firmware package. The blade still runs the old BIOS, and the maintenance policy is set to wait for an administrator. Why is the new firmware not active yet?
• A media company wants a new service profile to associate only to blades that have a specific VIC model. Other blades in the same chassis must not receive it. Which object filters that hardware?
• A regional hospital applied a new host firmware package to a service profile. Blade BIOS can change, but the chassis IOM and the fabric interconnects stay on the previous code. Which package updates the IOM and the fabric interconnects?
• A media company loses traffic for one blade vNIC when a single uplink fails. That vNIC is in a LAN pin group that names only the failed uplink. Other vNICs on the blade keep forwarding. Why did this vNIC stay down?
• A media company wants an XML export of service profiles, pools, and policies that an engineer can read. A binary snapshot of the whole fabric interconnect domain is not required. Which backup matches that request?
• A SaaS platform has claimed a UCS server in Intersight. After a field notice is published for that hardware, an operator needs the list of notices that apply to the server. A copy of vNIC frames is not required. Where is that list?
• A media company already uses CIMC for virtual KVM on a standalone C-series server. They now want a UCS Manager service profile and vNIC templates to own that server. What does that management model require?
• A SaaS platform can open each fabric interconnect on its own address, but the cluster virtual IP does not answer. The L1 and L2 cluster ports between the pair are not cabled. What is missing?
• A media company blade loses its only vNIC whenever one specific uplink fails, even though another uplink on the same fabric interconnect stays up. The vNIC belongs to a pin group aimed at the failing uplink. What removes that single-uplink dependency?
• A regional hospital cabled one link from each fabric interconnect to a new blade chassis, and the chassis is not discovered. The chassis discovery policy requires four links. Which setting is blocking discovery?
• A media company must rebuild service profiles, pools, and policies on a replacement fabric interconnect pair and wants an importable XML file. Which backup contains that logical configuration?
• A SaaS platform blade completes Fibre Channel login, but its vHBA is in a different VSAN from the array it must reach. Zoning in the array's VSAN is already correct. What should change on the service profile?
• A regional hospital updated a blade's host firmware package and the server rebooted at once during clinic hours. The maintenance policy applies firmware changes immediately. How should the next update be kept from rebooting on its own?
• A SaaS platform runs UCS X-series in Intersight Managed Mode. An engineer edits a server profile to change which fabric ports are uplinks, and the ports do not change. Where does that port role belong?
• A media company service profile stays unassociated. Its server pool has free blades, but the pool qualification requires an adapter model none of those blades have. What prevents association?
• A SaaS platform wants a warning when a published security advisory applies to the firmware on a claimed rack server. Which view answers that?
• A media company has a standalone UCS C-series server and no fabric interconnects. They want that server in the Intersight inventory so its firmware is visible. What achieves the claim?
• A media company service profile stays unassociated. The server pool qualification requires more memory than the selected blade has. Why does association fail?
• A SaaS platform powered on two fabric interconnects, and each one stayed a standalone device. The L1 and L2 cluster ports were never cabled between them. What must be connected before they form a cluster?
• A regional hospital applied a new host firmware package, and the blades came up on the new server firmware. The chassis IOM firmware did not change. Which package updates the IOM?
• A media company host uses VLAN 50, the vNIC template already allows VLAN 50, and the upstream router uses that VLAN, but the fabric interconnect uplink port-channel does not allow it. Where should VLAN 50 be added?
• A SaaS platform blade's vHBA logs into the fabric, but the array never matches it. The zone names the blade WWNN, while the vHBA presents a different WWPN at login. What should the zone name instead?
• A media company has a standalone UCS C-series server and no fabric interconnects. The server should appear in the Intersight inventory and receive advisories. What accomplishes that?
• A SaaS platform added a VLAN on a UCS X server profile vNIC, but the Intersight Managed Mode uplinks still do not carry that VLAN. The domain profile was not updated. Which change programs the uplinks?
• A SaaS platform chassis is visible on the fabric interconnects, the attached ports are already server ports, and the chassis still waits for an administrator. What finishes this discovery step?
• A media company imported a logical configuration backup into a rebuilt UCS domain. Service profiles and pools returned, and the local usernames did not. Why are the local users missing?
• A regional hospital updated the host firmware package on a service profile. The maintenance policy waits for an administrator to acknowledge a reboot, and the blade still runs the old firmware. Why has the new firmware not started?
• A SaaS platform operator wants the published hardware advisory that affects a claimed UCS server, not a copy of that server's frames. Where should the operator look?
• A media company blade has a SAN boot target in its boot policy, and it still boots the local disk, which is listed first and is bootable. What change makes the blade boot from the array?
• A SaaS platform blade logs its vHBA into VSAN 20. The array and the zones that should include this blade are in VSAN 10, so the LUN never appears. The SAN boot target is already filled in. What should change?
• A SaaS platform created Intersight server profiles for UCS X-series nodes, and the profiles do not associate. No domain profile has been deployed to the fabric interconnects. What has to happen first?
• A regional hospital assigns a new host firmware package and the bound servers reboot immediately, even though the team wanted to wait for a change window. Which policy turns that package change into an immediate reboot?
• A regional hospital updated the host firmware package on every blade. The chassis IOM firmware did not change. Which upgrade carries new IOM firmware?
• A media company vNIC is pinned to one uplink. That uplink fails, and the vNIC goes down even though other uplinks on the same fabric interconnect are up. Why did the vNIC stay down?
• A SaaS platform can open the CIMC page on a standalone rack server, but that server never appears in Intersight. Which action registers the server with Intersight?
• A media company replaced a failed fabric interconnect, and an XML export of service profiles, pools, and policies did not restore the interconnect system state. Which backup is built for that restore?
• A media company powered a fabric interconnect pair, configured the server ports, and still has no cluster and no virtual management address. The L1 and L2 ports between the interconnects are not cabled. What must be connected?
• A media company vHBA logs into the fabric, but the zone and the array mask were built from the vHBA node name. The port name issued from the WWPN pool is a different value. Which name should the zone and the mask use?
• A SaaS platform updated its servers with a host firmware package, but each chassis IOM is still on the old firmware and the fabric interconnect reports a mismatch. Which update brings the IOM in line with the interconnect?
• A regional hospital vNIC goes down when its only uplink fails, even though the other fabric interconnect uplinks stay up. The LAN pin group on that vNIC contains only the failed port. Why does the vNIC stay down?
• A SaaS platform service profile points at a server pool and stays unassociated. The pool qualification requires an adapter model that none of the blades have. What change allows a blade to be selected?
• A media company cabled two links from a new blade chassis to each fabric interconnect and configured those ports as server ports, but the chassis is not discovered. The chassis discovery policy requires four links. Which change matches the cabling?
• A regional hospital wants a rack server that is managed only from CIMC today to receive a service profile from the existing UCS Manager domain. What does that design require?
• A media company changed uplink port roles inside a UCS X server profile in Intersight Managed Mode, and the fabric interconnect uplinks did not change. Which profile owns those domain-wide port roles?
• A SaaS platform must upgrade firmware on both fabric interconnects in a cluster and keep one interconnect forwarding throughout the work. Which sequence meets that goal?
• Blades on one fabric interconnect in a SaaS platform can reach each other in a VLAN, but none of them can reach the upstream router in that VLAN. The vNIC template already allows the VLAN, and the uplink port-channel does not. Where must the VLAN be allowed?
• A SaaS platform team associates new service profiles to a server pool, and the profiles remain unassociated. The pool qualification requires a VIC model these blades do not have. Why does association fail?
• A SaaS platform team changes BIOS settings in the CIMC of a C-series server that is integrated with UCS Manager. After the next association the settings revert. The service profile has a BIOS policy. Where should the change be made so it stays?
• A media company blade shows a vHBA, but FLOGI never succeeds toward the array. The SAN uplink allows VSAN 20 only. The vHBA template places the blade in VSAN 12. Which change matches the path the fabric actually carries?
• A media company applied a new host firmware package to a service profile. Hours later the blade still runs the previous firmware. The maintenance policy is user-ack, and no reboot has been acknowledged. Why is the firmware unchanged?
• A regional hospital built Intersight server profiles for a new UCS X-series domain. Deployment fails because no domain profile has been deployed to the fabric interconnects. What has to happen first?
• A media company must capture the frames leaving one blade vNIC and open them in an analyzer. Intersight already lists that server as healthy, with no advisory. Which UCS Manager feature produces the frame copy?
• A media company uploaded new images and created a new host firmware package. Associated blades still run the previous BIOS. The maintenance policy is immediate. Why has no blade rebooted into the new package?
• A hospital chassis is still cabled to both fabric interconnects. UCS Manager lists it as decommissioned, and acknowledging the chassis does not return it to inventory. What brings it back?
• A media blade's fabric B vHBA logs in and is zoned to the array in the correct VSAN. The boot policy names a SAN boot target only on fabric A, and no target exists there. The blade never boots from the LUN. What should change?
• A bank restores a logical configuration backup onto a replacement fabric interconnect pair. Service profiles, pools, and policies return, but every vHBA logs in with a new WWPN and the SAN zones miss the blades. What was left off when that backup was taken?
• A SaaS chassis is cabled to fabric interconnect ports, and UCS Manager never discovers it. Those ports were configured as Ethernet uplink ports toward the LAN. Which port role lets a chassis be discovered?
• A bank edits the BIOS settings on a service profile template. Every blade already associated from that template schedules a reboot under the maintenance policy. Which template type pushes a later edit into profiles that already exist?
• A logistics C-series server should be discovered by UCS Manager. The only cable into a fabric interconnect server port is the server's dedicated CIMC management port. The server never appears. What must be connected to that server port?
• A SaaS operator needs a keyboard and video session to a UCS X blade. The fabric interconnects run Intersight Managed Mode, and browsing to the fabric interconnect does not open UCS Manager. Where is the console session started?
• A media company adds a VLAN to an initial vNIC template. Blades that already received their vNICs from that template still do not have the VLAN. Profiles created from the template after the edit do. Why did the existing vNICs stay unchanged?
• A SaaS UCS domain has free blades that meet every server pool qualification. New service profiles stay unassociated and report that a WWPN cannot be assigned. The WWPN pool has no free addresses. What has to be expanded?
• A bank sets a vNIC template MTU to 9000. The QoS system class that vNIC uses still has an MTU of 1500. Large frames from the blade are dropped. Which MTU has to be raised so those 9000-byte frames can pass?
• A factory replaces a failed blade and associates the same service profile to the new blade. The SAN zones still name the previous WWPN, and the new blade logs in with that same WWPN. Why did the WWPN stay the same?